My life trajectory has been MN -> RI -> MA -> CA, and my
feelings about that are CA > MA > RI > MN. The Gallup poll
folk seem to think I have no variance not accounted for by the
following: single, no dependents, highly likely to vote, not
religiously affiliated, never shop at Walmart, and "do not consider
myself a NASCAR fan." What Gallup probably doesn't realize,
however, is that I'm also impressively bad at jumping rope, and I
buy wineglasses based solely on the tonal clarity of their
clinks.

• sciencing data at a startup (cog-psych-tech-oriented)
• using bullet points
• learning cello and
discovering it's hard to teach an old dog new clefs
• playing with magnets
• studying too many languages at once to get any good at any of
them
• pretending on the treadmill to be a robot sent back through time
to save humanity's future
• memorizing various items